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It was shearing time at the Myall Lake	A
And then rose the sound through the livelong day	B
Of the constant clash that the shear blades make	A
When the fastest shearers are making play	B
But there wasn't a man in the shearers' lines	C
That could shear a sheep with the two Devines	C
They had rung the sheds of the east and west	D
Had beaten the cracks of the Walgett side	E
And the Cooma shearers had given them best	D
When they saw them shear they were satisfied	E
From the southern slopes to the western pines	C
They were noted men were the two Devines	C
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'Twas a wether flock that had come to hand	F
Great struggling brutes that shearers shirk	G
For the fleece was filled with the grass and sand	F
And seventy sheep was a big day's work	G
At a pound a hundred it's dashed hard lines	C
To shear such sheep said the two Devines	C
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But the shearers knew that they's make a cheque	G
When they came to deal with the station ewes	C
They were bare of belly and bare of neck	G
With a fleece as light as a kangaroo's	C
We will show the boss how a shear blade shines	C
When we reach those ewes said the two Devines	C
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But it chanced next day when the stunted pines	C
Were swayed and stirred by the dawn wind's breath	H
That a message came for the two Devines	C
That their father lay at the point of death	H
So away at speed through the whispering pines	C
Down the bridle track rode the two Devines	C
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It was fifty miles to their father's hut	I
And the dawn was bright when they rode away	B
At the fall of night when the shed was shut	I
And the men had rest from the toilsome day	B
To the shed once more through the darkening pines	C
On their weary steeds came the two Devines	C
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Well you're back right sudden the super said	J
Is the old man dead and the funeral done	K
Well no sir he ain't not exactly dead	J
But as good as dead said the eldest son	K
And we couldn't bear such a chance to lose	C
So we came straight back to tackle the ewes	C
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They are shearing ewes at the Myall Lake	G
And the shed is merry the livelong day	B
With the clashing sound that the shear blades make	G
When the fastest shearers are making play	B
And a couple of hundred and ninety nines	C
Are the tallies made by the two Devines	C

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